2014 ANNUAL REVIEW

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER FOUNDATION ARTS • CULTURE • HERITAGE WWW.ANDREWLLOYDWEBBERFOUNDATION.COM 2014

about the foundation

“I am lucky enough to have made a successful career doing something that I love and it now gives me great joy that my Foundation is able to support such a wide range of projects that both celebrate and preserve our artistic heritage as well as nurture and encourage the young performers of the future.”

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber established the Foundation in 1992 to promote the arts, culture and heritage for the public benefit.

In 2014, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation awarded 36 new grants, a third more than in 2013, made 15 grants to projects in their subsequent years of funding and provided 30 musical theatre scholarships. Since 2010, the grants totalling over £9m have been made to projects demonstrating their ability to make a real difference to improve the quality of life both for individuals and across local communities. Photo: Stuart Leech

2014 grants awarded

“The traineeship has transformed me into a professional, giving me real professional experience that future employers will see as valuable. This job has tied it all together, formalising and developing things I already knew, and unlocking some hidden skills.”

- Peter Quinn, the Roundhouse

the Roundhouse 2014 grants awarded

• £100,000 over 2 years to the to create a pathway from first • £15,000 to Be The Change, Jerwood Charitable Foundation creative encounter through to peer Barbados towards a music in towards their National Development leader and ultimately on to young, primary schools project, providing Programme for Arts Graduates independent artist free instruments and tuition to all students in participating schools • £90,000 over 3 years to Royal • £25,000 to , Court Theatre, towards Islington towards Almeida Projects • £15,000 to Tricycle Theatre their new writers programmes Creative Learning Programme towards the Tricycle Takeover

• £64,725 to the BRIT School, • £25,000 to Old Vic Theatre • £15,000 to Shakespeare’s Globe Croydon “The Bridge Company,” to support Old Vic New Voices for a year-long post of Music a company of 14 post sixth form (OVNV) Talent Programme Department Assistant Trainee students, selected and trained to run every aspect of their own • £26,000 to Cathedral and • £12,950 to Royal Court, Liverpool theatre company, receiving master Church Buildings Division towards their Youth Theatre provision classes, workshops and mentoring towards the restoration and • £12,750 to The Berkshire from BRIT School tutors, industry conservation of highly important Maestros towards their Academy professionals and practitioners works of art held by churches across the UK on Sundays • £60,000 over 2 years to the • £11,225 to Irene Taylor Trust Roundhouse to fund 2 trainees on • £25,000 to the Scottish Civic “Music in Prisons” Sounding their Performing Arts Traineeships Trust towards the setup of the Out Project Scheme Scottish Heritage Angel Awards • £10,000 to the Theatre Royal • £66,800 over 2 years to Stage • £20,000 over 2 years to the Plymouth towards an outreach One to fund Theatre Producer Theatre Royal Stratford East youth theatre project, the Young Apprenticeships within the industry towards their Musical Theatre Initiative Company Hubs • £45,000 over 3 years to the • £10,000 to the Society of Everyman & Playhouse, • £25,000 to the Landmark Architectural Historians of GB Liverpool and Merseyside Trust towards the restoration of Pugin’s Grade 1 listed St Edward’s Theatres towards their Young • £6,000 to Kids Company Directors and Young Producers Presbytery in Ramsgate programme • £5,880 to Villiers Park • £25,000 to Pugin’s Church of St. Educational Trust • £30,000 to Caius House, Augustine, Ramsgate towards the Battersea towards salary costs restoration of the church chancel • £5,000 to the Tunnell Trust for of providing a yearlong Mini Music and reinstatement of the Rood Young Musicians Industry project for disadvantaged Screen to Pugin’s original design 11-21 year-olds • £4,000 to Wallasey School in • £21,350 over 2 years to the Wirral • £30,000 over 3 years to the Community First (Youth Action National Youth Theatre of Great Wiltshire) towards a musical • £1,500 to the North East Britain Rep Company providing development programme, involving of Scotland Music School, real professional experience for Wiltshire Young Carers, schools and Aberdeen 15 young actors, who will spend music groups around the county 9 months on an intensive programme • £1,500 to Cupar Youth Musical • £19,200 to Mayor’s Music culminating in a 10 week repertory Theatre, Fife Fund to part fund a Youth Music season in the Orchestra programme and • £1,500 to Amateur Dramatics, • £30,000 over 2 years to workshops in conjunction with the Ecchinswell, Hampshire Manchester Camerata towards Lyric Hammersmith • £1,000 to St. Swithun’s Bramston their creative music programme • £15,385 to Hall for Cornwall, Bursary Fund, Windsor for young people across Greater Truro towards the Youth Theatre Manchester designed and led by and Young Script Writers project • £1,000 to Letchworth Arts Manchester Camerata’s own Youth Centre, Hertfordshire Forum. The programme is designed “We are delighted to have the support LuRoque Photo: Lauren of the ALW Foundation for this work, which I believe shares our objectives of nurturing and promoting the future talent of theatre.”

- Rupert Goold, Artistic Director, Almeida Theatre

Almeida Theatre

Photo: RWD14 “Not only do I feel that I’ve been given an incredibly exclusive training/education opportunity, but I feel that the course is giving me the confidence to pursue professional work in the industry independently in a variety of roles within a theatre company, other than simply being an actor.”

- Jack Stimpson, student aged 19 ‘The Bridge Company’, The BRIT School The BRIT School

“Our Youth Forum plays an increasingly important role in shaping our youth engagement, and this renewed funding from the ALW Foundation will give us the means to develop a whole range of projects driven by the Youth Forum itself.”

- Nick Ponsillo, Head of Learning Participation, Manchester Camerata

Manchester Camerata

“ We are very grateful for the donation from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and for Lord Lloyd Webber’s personal interest and support for our project. It takes us one step nearer towards the church’s restoration and the setting up of a Centre for Pugin inside the church.”

- Fr Marcus Holden, Rector of St Augustine’s church

Pugin’s Church of St. Augustine 2014 multi-year grants

• 3rd grant of £60,000 to The Royal School, • 2nd grant of £15,302 to Half Moon Young People’s to fund their Dance Partnership and Access Programmes Theatre in Tower Hamlets to fund their Careers in which identify, inspire and nurture talented young people Theatre programme offered to local state secondary from disadvantaged backgrounds. 7-8 year-olds across school pupils, giving hands-on project management 32 schools in Blackpool, Dagenham, Swindon, Bury style experience in the creation of a professional St Edmunds and Mansfield benefit from workshops theatre performance. and weekly tuition as part of primarySTEPS programme while the aDvANCE programme allows teenagers in • 3rd grant of £15,000 to the Wales Millennium state secondary schools and specialist dance centres Centre’s Creative Apprenticeship Scheme which to participate in workshops and performances with invests in, encourages and develops future generations students. of stage technicians, electricians and other behind the scenes roles through hands-on experience in house and • 2nd grant of £36,000 to the Orpheus Centre to fund on tour over the period of a year. bursaries for young people aged 18-25 with learning or physical impairments who have a passion for performing • 3rd grant of £10,000 to Performances Birmingham arts. Students learn song-writing and performing arts run by Town Hall and Symphony Hall, towards their alongside practical skills and gain a confidence for generation project which gives children from Ladywood independent living. primary schools the chance to learn to play a musical instrument alongside professional musicians, learn to sing, • 2nd grant of £27,000 to the Royal Shakespeare perform on stage at Symphony Hall and attend at least two Company Learning and Performance Network concerts each year. partnering primary and secondary schools in deprived areas of the UK with regional theatres and RSC • 3rd grant of £10,000 to The Queen Elizabeth practitioners, giving over 2000 students the opportunity Scholarship Trust (QEST) to support one scholar per to take part in workshops in schools and local theatres, year in an apprenticeship scheme working with master as well as residential courses at the RSC. crafts people to learn important heritage skills such as stonemasonry, conservation in fine and decorative arts • 2nd grant of £18,000 to The Society for the and silver-smithing. Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) to fund two full-time scholarships in each year for young architects, • 2nd grant of £7,000 to Tangled Feet Theatre surveyors and engineers in building conservation, learning Company towards the continuation of their participation specialist repair methods and conservation skills. programme for 16-24 year-olds not in employment, education or training to learn theatre skills over a course • 3rd grant of £16,000 to Sadler’s Wells to support of intensive rehearsals, evening classes and internships. Wild Card, a workshop project to support and develop young, active and dynamic emerging choreographers and • 3rd grant of £3,379 to the Egg at Theatre Royal Bath producers by offering resources, performance opportunities to fund intensive week long Junior Apprentice programmes and mentoring from Sadler’s Wells professionals. to provide carefully structured mentoring and work experience for up to 20 GCSE students per year. • 3rd grant of £15,507 to Square Chapel’s Write to Record Project, Halifax, Yorkshire supporting young people to gain skills in musicianship, song-writing, recording and performing over three years. Participants aged 11-18 will be from diverse backgrounds across the borough of Calderdale, taught and supported by professional musicians. multi-year grants

“For me the Wild Card was invaluable. It enabled me to show work that London, and even UK, audiences don’t get to see that often. Wild Card confirmed my interest in curating events and creating context for fruitful exchange, whether that is between audiences and makers or between artists themselves. The experience of thorough planning through to the realisation of the event itself, has given me the confidence to organise high quality events in the future and to be ambitious about the scale of what is possible.”

- Neil Callaghan, Wild Card, Sadler’s Wells November 2014

Sadler’s Wells Performances Birmingham Royal Shakespeare Company

“I used to nag my mum to take me to see ballet shows, but I couldn’t

go to ballet classes because there weren’t any in my local area so when I Photo: Brian Slater found out about this project I thought, ‘I’m doing this, I don’t care!’ It has been a really amazing experience, completely different to anything I’ve done before and I’ve learnt lots of new skills. The project has given me confidence in my creativity, but the most valuable thing for me has been to reconnect with my love of dance.”

- Endrina, Year 12, participant in the aDvANCE project working with Royal Ballet Upper School 1st Year students

The Royal Ballet School

Half Moon Young People’s Theatre The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath Square Chapel

“The initial funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has enabled Square Chapel to develop further music opportunities for young people and to attract further funding.”

- Kane Rattray, Arts Outreach Officer, Square Chapel

Royal Shakespeare Company “For me the Wild Card was invaluable. It enabled me to show work that London, and even UK, audiences don’t get to see that often. Wild Card confirmed my interest in curating events and creating context for fruitful exchange, whether that is between audiences and makers or between artists themselves. The experience of thorough planning through to the realisation of the event itself, has given me the confidence to organise high quality events in the future and to be ambitious about the scale of what is possible.”

- Neil Callaghan, Wild Card, Sadler’s Wells November“The Queen 2014 Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Apprenticeship has made an enormous difference to my life as I can now pursue the career I have dreamed of, but not had the opportunity to embark on. I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity.”

- Paul Kirkos, QEST apprentice in silver-smithing with Hamilton and Inches of Edinburgh

Queen Elizabeth ScholarshipSadler’s Wells Trust 2014 scholarships supported

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation funds 10 new performing arts scholarships each year at renowned musical theatre colleges through the UK. The scholarships are awarded by the colleges as part of the selection process on the combined basis of merit and financial need. To date, 19 students have graduated on ALWF performing arts scholarships with a further 30 currently part way through their course.

Arts Educational Schools, London London School of Musical Theatre Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Course: 1 year Musical Theatre Course Course: 1 year Musical Theatre Course Musical Theatre Value of each scholarship: £13,900 Value of each scholarship: £13,800 Value of each scholarship: £40,980 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 No. of students supported in 2014: 3 Royal Central School Course: 3 year BA (Hons) of Speech & Drama Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Dance Theatre Dance Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Acting & Theatre Performance Value of each scholarship: £27,000 & 1 year Associate Musical Director Value of each scholarship: £27,000 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Fellowship No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Value of each scholarship: £27,000 & £15,000 Millennium Performing Arts No. of students supported in 2014: 2 Guildford School of Acting Course: 3 year Professional Musical Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Theatre Diploma Musical Theatre Value of each scholarship: £34,050 Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Value of each scholarship: £27,000 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Course: 3 year BA Musical Theatre No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Value of each scholarship: £27,000 No. of students supported in 2014: 3 Mountview Academy Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts of Theatre Arts Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Performance – Royal Welsh College Course: 3 year Performing Arts Diploma Musical Theatre of Music and Drama Value of each scholarship: £47,970 Value of each scholarship: £39,750 Course: 1 year MA Musical Theatre No. of students supported in 2014: 2 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Value of each scholarship: £13,125 No. of students supported in 2014: 1

Laine Theatre Arts Course: 3 year Musical Theatre Diploma Course: 6 month Acting in Sylvia Young Theatre School Value of each scholarship: £50,985 Musical Theatre Course Course: 3 years study in Years 9 to 11 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 Value of each scholarship: £7,000 Value of each scholarship: £37,305 No. of students supported in 2014: 1 No. of students supported in 2014: 2 Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts Phil Winston’s Theatreworks Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Acting Course: 3 year Performing Arts Course Course: 3 year Professional Dance / Value of each scholarship: £27,000 Value of each scholarship: £14,190 Musical Theatre Diploma No. of students supported in 2014: 2 No. of students supported in 2014: 3 Value of each scholarship: £36,000 No. of students supported in 2014: 2 London Academy of Music of Theatre and Arts (LAMDA) and Performance Course: 2 year Foundation Degree in Course: 3 year BA (Hons) Stage Management & Technical Theatre Actor Musicianship Value of each scholarship: £18,000 Value of each scholarship: £27,000 No. of students supported in 2014: 2 No. of students supported in 2014: 2 2014 Photo: Robert Workman “Being on the ALW Scholarship allowed me to attend the school, as in no way would I have been able to afford the school fees and living cost – having the support of the Foundation made everything possible. Whilst I was still at scholarships supported school I was given the opportunity to perform in Kander and Ebbs Scottsboro Boys, which was transferring to the West End from the . None of this would have been possible without the ALW Scholarship and I just want to say thank you for the chance to make my dreams a reality.”

- Emmanuel Kojo, Musical Theatre Course, 2011 - 2014, Arts Educational Schools, London

Arts Educational Schools, London “Practically the scholarship enabled me to study without the burden of financial concern; it was genuinely life-changing in this sense. Psychologically, it gave me a boost in terms of both confidence and determination. I was lucky enough to be cast in

the original West End company of Once the Musical just after the Porter Photo: Mark Dean & Steve second term of RAM. I left the show in May of 2014, and went on to join the number one UK tour of Calamity Jane, playing the role of Adelaide Adams, and understudying for the role of Calamity.”

- Christina Tedders, 1 Year Musical Theatre Course,

Royal Academy of Music Guildford School of Acting Photo: Robin Savage Photo: Robin Photo: Robert Workman

Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts London Studio Centre

“The ALW Foundation Scholarships are a vital tool to help LAMDA reach and recruit the best students; regardless of

their financial circumstances. Thank Hubert Smith Photo: Richard you for playing such an important role in ensuring that talented and passionate young people from all backgrounds can access the Academy’s world class training.”

– Joanna Read, Principal, LAMDA LAMDA Photo: KK Dundas/RCS

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts Photo: Patrick Baldwin Photo: Patrick

“As cliche as it sounds, the time spent at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama was life changing because the training was not only one of the highest quality, but because of the people I trained with and met from doing the course. I recently finished my first professional job in which I played the title role of ‘Aladdin’ in the Newbury Corn Exchanges pantomime. Words will never be able to fully thank the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Scholarship enough, but I will never forget and always be grateful for the generosity given to me and how it has helped.”

- Christian James, 3 year BA (Hons) Acting & Musical Theatre, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

London Studio Centre

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 2014 heritage projects

• £1m awarded over 5 years to the Architectural Heritage Fund’s “Challenge Fund” The Challenge Fund continues to support the restoration back to use of important Grade 1 or 2 listed buildings, so that these important heritage sites can be used and enjoyed today. George Street Chapel in Oldham, Severndroog Castle in Shooters Hill, South London and the Wolfeton Riding House in Dorset are the first projects completed, with grants awarded this year including the Argos Hill Windmill, in Mayfield, East Sussex and the completed Severndroog Castle.

• £125k awarded over 5 years to the Theatres Trust to set up a Theatres Protection Fund Small Grants scheme. This Scheme continues to make a number of grants to improve conditions, maintenance and quality of theatre buildings, particularly those deemed at risk. Ten theatres have benefitted from the fund in 2014 including Tara Arts, Hall and Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, Shanklin Theatre on the Isle of Wight, the Blackpool Grand Theatre and the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.

• £100,000 awarded over 5 years to co-fund the Annual English Heritage Angel Awards. 2014 marked the fourth year of the Awards, which celebrate the efforts of local people who go to extraordinary lengths to rescue historic buildings and sites that would otherwise be lost to ruin and decay.

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Oldland Windmill, built in 1700, was voted the ‘People’s favourite’ from the 16 shortlisted entries in the Angel Awards 2014. Little maintenance was carried out after this wooden post mill ceased work in 1912, so when it was declared to be a ‘dangerous structure’ in 1980, Hassocks Amenity Association obtained the lease and took responsibility for the restoration. A group of volunteers was formed, and many years, and generations of volunteers, later, the restoration is now nearly complete, and the mill is a popular local attraction with young and old alike. Annual English Heritage Angel Awards the andrew lloyd 2014 webber programme heritage projects music in secondary schools trust

In April 2013, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation pledged at the end of last year. She was promoted to the Senior Orchestra, £1m to establish the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MISST) where she now plays 2nd clarinet, and was selected to be part in conjunction with the Charles Wolfson Trust. The ‘Andrew of the Saturday Music School. Last year she, along with 37 other Lloyd Webber Programme’ of music education is based on music students from the Saturday Music School, went on tour to Italy. programme which was developed at Highbury Grove School, promising every child an entitlement to study a classic musical Daisy, Year 10, is fully immersed in musical life at Highbury instrument on entry, as well as tuition and the opportunity to Grove School, learning trumpet (Grade 7), double bass (Grade play and perform as part of ensemble or orchestral groups 4) and studying GSCE Music. She is a member of the HGS on a regular basis. Choir, Senior Orchestra, Musical Pit Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Saturday Music School and has recently been selected to play Over the past decade, Highbury Grove School has undergone as part of Tomorrow’s Warriors, a youth jazz band in London. an extraordinary transformation, reversing poor exam results and high truancy rates to be named one of Britain’s best state Lister Community School, Newham, joined MiSST as the first schools in 2014 by Tatler magazine. partner school in September 2013 and 480 students are now enrolled on the programme. As of September 2014, there were The school credits this success to the emphasis it has placed on six participating secondary schools in London, including Mount music provision. As a result well over half of the students now study Carmel Roman Catholic School for Girls, Islington; Frederick and play a classical instrument, and the school has several orchestras Bremer School, Waltham Forest; Sedgehill School, Lewisham and many ensemble groups, in addition to choirs and rock bands. and Islington Arts and Media School, Islington. The current number of participating students is 1600 and this will rise Akua, Year 9, started played the clarinet in Year 7 and has to 2500 in September 2015. progressed phenomenally, passing her Grade 4 clarinet exam

scholarship at eton college

In September 2012, the Foundation financed a new 6th form to support musically talented students who would not otherwise music scholarship at Eton, aimed specifically at musically talented have the opportunity to study under the expert guidance of Eton’s boys educated at state schools, from families who cannot afford outstanding music department. The Foundation’s scholarship will the school fees. Through this scholarship, the Foundation aims support 10 sixth form students over 11 years. art

Canaletto “London: The Old Horse Guards from St James’s Park” (Detail) Stanley Spencer “The Garage” (Detail)

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation owns two pre-eminent works of art which were on exhibition to the public during 2014.

Canaletto’s “London: The Old Horse Guards from St James’s Stanley Spencer’s “The Garage” is on long term loan to Park” remained on exhibition at Tate Britain, London. In 2015, The Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, Berkshire and it will be loaned to the Canaletto: Celebrating Britain exhibition was included in their 2014 summer exhibition “Paradise opening at Compton Verney on 14 March, before touring to Regained, Spencer in the aftermath of the First World War”. the Holburne Museum, Bath and the Abbot Hall Art Gallery In the coming year, it will form an integral part of their in Cumbria. exhibition “The Creative Genius of Stanley Spencer” which runs from 2 April 2015 to 20 March 2016.

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Scholarship Consultants Trustees Registered Office David Grindrod Associates The Lady Lloyd Webber Sydmonton House, Burghclere, L E Fennell Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 9NJ Charity Executive P W Freeman C Maton Sarah Miller Registered charity number M G Wordsworth 1015648